In terms of attraction, I also believe that whatever you fail to use, you lose. We don’t expect that we stay fit when we stop exercising. We don’t expect to never become hungry if we stop eating. Then why is it that after you get wealthy and stop to use your brains about investing, of fail to do your due diligence about your money manager, or decide not to find out enough to understand someone else’s investment strategy, we STILL expect that our wealth should expand.

Another brief comment. The stock market goes in 16-18 year cycles. 1929-1948 stock went absolutely nowhere. 1948-1966 was a great boom. 1966-1982 stocks went nowhere again and you lost money if you take the inflation into account. 1982-2000 another boom. 2000-2016 or so — yet another boom. We now a generation of people who think that you can just buy and hold your way to riches or to retirement, so it is a great shock for a lot of people to realize that there’s no free lunch. You actually have to start applies Joe Vitale’s teachings to increase your wealth. The markets are NOT going to do it for you…

Joe, I too read this book. And reread. I did feel I was put in the room. Later I took the second Forum offered in Seattle. I still teach from that material.

My wife and I felt so changed we renewed our vows.

blessings,

William

Thanks for making this book available again. I am sure I have a copy of the original in my attic, I also have a copy of one of the trainers books from the EST training from 1980 (not sure how I ended up with that one??)

When I started reading (experiencing) the EST training throught the ebook – I was recalling what happened at the training and my life afterwards. Werner was actually my trainer for the first weekend and I remember him standing in front of me and telling me that I was “a miss goody two-shoes.” He was entirely correct and I was amazed that he was able to see exactly who I was being. He did this for many people in our training, he was quite spectacular.

It seemed that my life was transformed after the two weekends and I recall having a magic wand that I used frequently. Life was truely magical, for a while.

This leads me to my question for you, why did the “magic” only last for a while? What was missing in the training or me that had me being an “asshole” all over again (or in my case miss goody two-shoes)? Why didn’t it stick? I have the feeling that it has something to do with limiting beliefs, not letting go and probably the need to be constantly clearing. What do you think?

Thanks again for the ebook,

Kim

The quote Lucy (above) mentions is my favorite too.. i say it too everyone… “In life, understanding is the booby prize,” and who could forget
“If you keep saying it the way it is, eventually your word becomes law in the universe” and “You’re god in your universe. You caused it. You pretended not to cause it so that you could play in it, and you can remember you caused it anytime you want to.”

Yes.. latter are also favorites too. Most powerful quote for me is BE HERE NOW – it’s such a wake up call. It was also the name of the 8 week seminar I did after the training. I took it TWICE! BE HERE NOW is the one that I constantly think of I am anywhere but here, now. There are no problems or conflicts here, now. Only what is. BE HERE NOW, I still can see my seminar leader David up on the stage even now.

I was very young (scared & excited) and got to take the est Training only 11 months before it vanished! I’d heard a bit about it, but not too much. I heard it was brutal and I went with 3 new friends into NYC prepared for brutality. My est Training Leader was named Tony and he was the MOST beautiful shining spirit, so radiant. Werner taught his est Trainers well, they were as brutal as he.

Werner worked hard to get people to drop their beloved identity and B.S. He was committed. Like the others above, my life was never the same after est. I am so grateful I took the training. The est Training was brutal.. but only brutal to the identity, the concocted story and the B.S. you built around that story. To the essence of who YOU are … it was PURE LOVE.

Afterwards I took the Introduction to the Training Leaders Program to lead est introductions and several seminars. The Intro Leaders training was very powerful and I grew a ton from participating with it. I and my seminar and program-mates cried and cried when the est Training ceased to be. I assisted at a couple of Forum events and continued to assist at seminars. However, the Forum felt watered down to me at the time due to the powerful experience and awakening I had during the est Training, I felt something was missing. No the Forum is no est. It is kinder, gentler and more politically correct. IMO, what made est work so well was that it was brutal. It takes unrelenting brutality to collapse the story even for a few moments revealing the authentic YOU that is possibility.

I am so grateful that more people are becoming aware of the gift of Werner and his work. (Of course Werner would not say he is a gift, just that he is being Werner.. ) Werner is a genius and WAY too under acknowledged. Without Werner’s work we would not have any of the language of transformation that we have now. Without Werner’s work there would never have been the “marketplace” for the seminars and books that followed, including yours Joe. (you know that and thank you for acknowledging Werner). Without Werner’s influence corporations would not have shifted to teamwork and dialogging from power and control. Without Werner’s work, I think many things would not be that are today.

All this said, I want to invite and encourage everyone to visit my friend Laurence Platt’s website!. Laurence is one of Werner’s oldest and dearest friends (and keeps up regularly with Werner and Dorothy – remember Dorothy, Werner’s mom?). Laurence brought and established the est Training in S. Africa. Laurence writes essays that are inspired by Werner’s work where the goal is to actually CREATE the experience of transformation for the reader. They are not normal essays, but essays in the language of transformation that speak to your listening only in the way someone that lives transformation can.

Please go – Laurence’s wonderful essays are here:
http://laurenceplatt.home.att.net/wernererhard

With Appreciation, Love and Joy,

Amy

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